The meridian 158° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 158th meridian east forms a great circle with the 22nd meridian west.
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 158th meridian east passes through:
Co-ordinates | Country, territory or sea | Notes |
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Arctic Ocean | ||
Sakha Republic — Jeannette Island | ||
East Siberian Sea | ||
Sakha Republic Chukotka Autonomous Okrug — from Sakha Republic — from Magadan Oblast — from | ||
Sea of Okhotsk | Shelikhov Gulf | |
Kamchatka Krai — Kamchatka Peninsula | ||
Pacific Ocean | ||
Ant Atoll — just west of the island of Pohnpei | ||
Pacific Ocean | Passing between the islands of Sikopo and Kerehikapa, (at) | |
New Georgia Sound | ||
Islands of Marovo and Vangunu | ||
Solomon Sea | ||
Coral Sea | Passing just west of the Chesterfield Islands, (at) | |
Pacific Ocean | ||
Southern Ocean | ||
Antarctica | Australian Antarctic Territory, claimed by | |